Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms
| Level | Reconstruction | Description |
|---|---|---|
| MASAME | A tree (Glochidion ramiflorum) | |
| MASARA | Recollect, think about | |
| MASELE | Sedge sp.: *ma(h,s)ele(sele) | |
| MASI-MASI | Dolphin-fish (Coryphaena hippurus) | |
| MASI.1 | Sour, acid, fermented (of vegetable food); vegetable food preserved by fermentation | |
| MASI.2 | Bark-cloth; loincloth | |
| MASUI | Left (not right) | |
| MATA-.4 | Numeral unitiser (classifier) for ten fish | |
| MATA-A | Obsidian or other stone that will flake with a sharp edge | |
| MATA-A-FAGA | Beach, seashore (Clk) | |
| MATA-A-FALE | Front of house | |
| MATA-A-LIMA | Finger | |
| MATA-A-PULE | Man of rank | |
| MATA-A-QUHA | Raindrop | |
| NO | MATA-A-TALA | Some part of a house |
| MATA-A-WAE | Toe | |
| MATA-A-WAKA | Bow, fore part of canoe | |
| MATA-FENUA | Extremity of land | |
| NO | MATA-KAINA | Village, home place |
| MATA-KAINAGA | Some social group, perhaps commoners inhabiting the same land division | |
| CK | MATA-KANA | |
| MATA-KITE.A | See clearly | |
| MATA-KITE.B | Clairvoyant, having second sight | |
| MATA-LIKI.A | Small, minute; fine (mesh, weave, etc.); small points or lights: *mata(li)liki | |
| MATA-LIKI.B | A star cluster, the Pleiades; name of a month or season | |
| MATA-LUA | Fish sp | |
| MATA-MATA | Small points, many small things of the same kind | |
| MATA-MOSO | A plant with red seeds | |
| MATA-PISU | Shellfish sp., Limpet | |
| MATA-POO | Be blind, blindness | |
| MATA-POOURI | Faint | |
| NO | MATA-PUKU | Fish sp., trevally |
| MATA-PULA | A fish (Priacanthus cruentatus) | |
| MATA-QA-MUQA | The first: *mata(a)mu`a | |
| MATA-QA-MURI | The last | |
| MATA-QALI | Prematurely fallen coconut | |
| MATA-QARA | Awake, alert | |
| MATA-QELE | Fish sp. (Serranidae) *mata(q,k)ele | |
| MATA-QI-HUHU | Nipple, teat | |
| MATA-QI-TALIGA | Hammer-head shark (Sphyrna sp.) | |
| MATA-SIAPO | Firstborn | |
| MATA-TILI | Coconut growth stage | |
| MATA-TOQA | Bold, brave | |
| MATA-WAI | Spring, source of river | |
| MATA.1A | Face, eye | |
| MATA.1B | Mesh of net | |
| MATA.1C | Point, blade, cutting-edge (of a weapon or instrument) | |
| MATA.1D | Point of land, headland | |
| MATA.1E | See, look at | |
| MATA.2A | Raw, unripe |
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